GOP Lawmaker Wants To 'Purge' FBI And Justice Dept.
A Republican lawmaker called on the heads of the FBI and Department of Justice on Tuesday to "purge" its "deep state" personnel.
Florida Representative Francis Rooney bemoaned the FBI's Trump-Russia probe during an interview with MSNBC's Hallie Jackson, saying, "That investigation is totally off the rails," and called on the justice department to clean house."I'm very concerned that the DOJ and FBI, whether you want to call it 'deep state' or what, are kind of off the rails," he said.
Rooney cited the recent revelation that one of the FBI's top investigators, Peter Strzok, had sent anti-Trump text messages, to bolster his argument. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is heading up the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, removed Strzok in July immediately after learning about the texts.Rooney also mentioned a former associate deputy attorney general, Bruce Ohr, who was demoted at the justice department after it was revealed he had undisclosed meetings with officials from Fusion GPS, the company that commissioned the controversial Trump dossier that the national intelligence agencies have not fully corroborated. The lawmaker also brought up money FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe's wife received while running for a Virginia state Senate seat in 2015. Trump tweeted in July that Jill McCabe had gotten $700,000 from Clinton, though Politifact deemed that claim "mostly false."
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MSNBC's Jackson pressed Rooney on his criticisms of the FBI and Department of Justice.
"How does that not, sort of, undermine the work that these agencies are doing?" she asked."Those aforementioned examples are really nerve-wracking to me and undermine my confidence that the agencies don't respect the Constitution," He said, adding, "People need a good clean government."
Jackson pushed back again. "There are those who look at comments like that ones that you're making and say that Republicans are working to essentially try to discredit the Department of Justice and thus discredit the investigations. Is that not what you're doing?"
"I don't want to discredit them," Rooney answered. "I would like to see the directors of those agencies purge it and say, 'look, we've got a lot of great agents, a lot of great lawyers here,' those are the people that I want the American people to see and know the good works being done, not these people who are kind of the deep state."
Rooney's comments come after Trump renewed his attacks against McCabe and the FBI over the holiday weekend. Trump critics say the spate of attacks on the bureau and justice department are a tactic to erode public trust in the agencies' credibility.
McCabe is expected to retire in the next few months, according to the Washington Post.
A personal note from me, this is the same kind of "Purge" that was done to the KGB whenever a new leader took over during the days of the USSR, the old guard was purged if they didn't see eye to eye with the new leader.
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Hitler even had a "Purge" when he first took over.
Purge is definitely not the right word to use in a situation like this, we are not the Soviet Union or, Nazi Germany........for now.
Sounds like Donald Rump wants to get rid of all the agencies investigating him. He's such a dumb fuck.
In my experiences through work, friends, associations and travel i've had many dealings with government employees and while i've had some good experiences i found most of them to be underwhelming in the intelligence department. Not sure why that is since i know some of the selection processes and training many of them go through is rather rigorous.
Best explanation i can give you is what friend said when he became a congressmen. He told me:
The whole system is corrupt in that regard and i think that corruption tends to extend it's noodly appendages into all facets of government.
Especially when multinational corporations are involved. Citizens United guaranteed ultimate corruption.
Thirty+ years of far right wing propaganda, innuendo and lies plus Russian interference are why Hillary lost the election.
And that's the absolute truth. Thank you!
Two other politicians said pretty much the same thing after they left office, John Boehner and, Barack Obama.
It’s not like the FBI doesn’t have a long history of deep state corrupt unconstitutional activity. Look at how long J Edgar Hoover was in power there and what we now know about his deep state activities.
You can’t drain the swamp without a purge.
Is J. Edgar Hoover still in charge at the FBI? I thought it was someone who was appointed by a Republican that was in charge there now. Is the "deep state" coming from the Trump White House? Wow, the Democrats better do something about that.
J Edgar was so virulently anti-communist there is no way you can call him a liberal. So I guess this "deep state" shit can come from any where, eh? Like far right wing conservatives maybe?
Yes the deep state has infected both parties. Trump not only had to beat the Dems but also the deep state Republicans like Jeb. The deep state didn’t die when Hoover did.
thank-you
The FBI needs to be above politics.
It's not.
I misread it. I thought they wanted to combine them and we already know they are combined with Comey taking his orders from Lynch.
The people working for the FBI overall are good people, but the top brass are political hacks or just plain out Lefties and very corrupt. Why else would they and they alone have to handle things like Hillary's matter as they called it?
Have you ever tried looking the "top brass" at the FBI up at all to see if you can back up what you are saying in your post? No, of course not, I did a little search and, this is what I found.
He's a Republican.
https://www.biography.com/people/christopher-wray-071417?_escaped_fragment_=#!
He's a Democrat and, is under Wray.
Mr. Bowdich doesn't have his political affiliation listed in his bio, (commendable), but, he has served in four administrations and, until the middle of the Obama administration was a field agent handling gangs in California.
I can't blame him, after the past year I'd call myself unaffiliated if my life long party had treated me the same.
So, if the leadership at the FBI are all "lefties" as you put it, why aren't they all Democrats or, worse, (gasp) progressives? You really need to quit listening to the crap that comes out of the RW sites, it's damaging your brain.